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F. A. BALLOU. BUTTON 0R STUD FOR SHIRT BOSOMS.

No 599,489. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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FREDERICK A. BALLOU, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

-BUTTON OR STUD FOR SHIRT BOSOIVIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,489, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed July 8, 1897. Serial No. 643,405. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. BALLOU, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons or Studs for Shirt-Bosoms; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 8 shows my improved button or bosom-stud in side elevation and illustrates the manner of inserting it in and through the eyelet-holes of a shirt-bosom. Fig. l shows said button or stud in wearing position in the shirt-bosom and illustrates the action of the spring-tongue to keep the head or ornamental front of the button or stud in contact with the shirt-bosom.

Myinvention relates to buttons or studs for shirt bosoms or cuffs; and it consists of the combination of a disk or ornamental front with a rigid post fastened to the center thereof on the rear side and bent and curved, as hereinafter described, with its free end returned in a direction parallel with said disk or ornamental front and extending nearly to the fixed end of said post, thus constituting a spring-tongue.

In the drawings A represents the disk or ornamental front or head of my improved bosom-stud. At the central part of the rear surface thereof is fastened a post B, which is bent in the form shown in Fig. 1-that is to say,the portion a of said post extends at a right angle from said disk A and is bent with a rounded corner I), the portion 0 extends in an angular direction from the portion a, the portion (Z extends from the bend e in a direction parallel to the plane of the disk A, and the portion f is bent at g and extends alongside of the portion cl and thence continuously in a straight direction toward and nearly to the portion a. The free end f is tempered and constitutes a spring-tongue.

This button or stud is used by inserting the end g of the bent post B through the eyelethole or opening h of the shirt-bosom O, and when the bent post B is pushed through the eyelet-hole in the direction of the arrow as, as seen in Fig. 3, the spring portion or tongue f of said'post is forced toward the portion 0 of the post until both portions 0 and f have been passed through the eyelet-hole. The resilience of the spring tongue or portion f then automatically returns it to its normal. posi tion and thereafter, by its pressure on the rear surface of the shirt-bosom, holds the disk or ornamental head A- of the stud in firm contact with the front of the shirt-bosom.

To detach the button or stud, it is seized by the head A and drawn out, which movement compresses the spring-tongue f toward the portion 0 of the post B, whereupon a continued drawing movement in an angular direction causes the free end of the tongue f to enter into and pass out through the eyelethole.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The improved button or stud herein described, consisting of a disk or head having an angularly-bent post rigidly fastened there to at one end and its opposite end bent inwardly and extending freely toward the fixed end of the post in the plane of said bent post and capable of a spring action in said plane, substantially as shown and for the purpose specified. v

' FREDERICK A. BALLOU.

WVitnesses:

WARREN R. PERCE, DANIEL W. FINK. 

